Just a quick laugh.

[flewellyn]

Go to this URL:

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/election2004.jsp?feature=ne_election5

Now, it's an ordinary news article. BUT. See that picture of Bush?

Check out the image file name.

Laugh at it from any perspective, be it from a sense of "so true" or simply the audacity of whoever put that there.

Edit: They changed the image file name, but parrhesia has saved a screen capture, which you can see here.

Comments

[dcayn.livejournal.com]

"How Bush won the election" .. that one?

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

The big image at the top, yes. The one of him and Laura Bush.

Check the file name for the image.

[parrhesia.livejournal.com]

Woaaah! :o

I saved this one (in case they change it) and added a little red glow & arrow:



How did you come to notice that, Flewy?

[buzz.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the save, by the time I came across it it had been changed so I had no idea what the deal was.

[eclipsis.livejournal.com]

Ditto

bwahaha

[dcayn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the screen cap. IE didn't give me the same response when I checked the file name. Instead, I got a file path to the pop image that just said "How Bush won the election" .. hence my confusion. Danke, danke .. that was quite hilarious.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Parr, you rock! Thanks for doing this.

As for how I noticed, a friend showed me.

[sujata.livejournal.com]

What is the image file name? It won't show up for me. :-(

*hoping it's something like "monkey boy"*,
Molly

[parrhesia.livejournal.com]

See http://www.odinsrealm.com/parr/temp/bush-is-an.gif :o

Warning...it's a baaad word

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

That is THE best!!!! >:-)

And I think I hurt myself laughing so hard, but it was worth it!

*going to bed the happiest I've been all day*,
Molly

[anwyn18.livejournal.com]

*pisses self laughing*

That's FANTASTIC!

[xuincherguixe.livejournal.com]

You can bet someone's going to lose their job over this :P

I'd like to know who that is so I could give them a handshake. And a gun to fend off the crazy republicans that'll come after him.

[parrhesia.livejournal.com]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41291

Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for Netscape, reiterated the fact CNN itself had nothing to do with the slur. He says the Netscape employee responsible has been fired.

"A junior employee at Netscape identified two election photos with image tags that used inappropriate, disparaging terms," Weinstein told WorldNetDaily. "As soon as the situation was discovered, it was immediately corrected, and the employee has been terminated."

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

"the employee has been terminated."

Terminated?

Sounds a trifle harsh.

[xuincherguixe.livejournal.com]

[hamstergal.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Subversive!

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Blimey.

Dunno how CNN.NS works, but that would have taken at least two people to agree on the filename on the sites I've worked on.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Superb!

[nevla.livejournal.com]

looks like it's been changed now (georgelaura135.jpg)

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Good thing parrhesia saved a screen cap, then!

[xuincherguixe.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned on someone else's journal, it should have been renamed FUCKINGasshole.jpg

:P

[amberite.livejournal.com]

Dwood! I know you! You're that one Malk. I'm that other Malk. I mean, I'm 'nananananana et al. Hi.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, and how'd I find you? I did an interest search on one of my rarer: "department of redundancy department."

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Really? Did you and I meet in #Malkavians?

[amberite.livejournal.com]

Yep. I hung out on the channel, oh, maybe three years ago now. Went by Banananananana (she knew how to spell banana, but she didn't know where to stop.)

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Ohh, right, nanners. How's that workin' out for you?

[amberite.livejournal.com]

Lots of the stuff and the things! I have, in the last few years, transported myself to the Pacific Northwest, gone to lots of school and some work, and met two wonderful people in Portland, shown in the picture, who I am marrying (un-legally, of course) in the spring. The real work is my writing, which is in luxton and mostly locked.